"Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]

by: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909

Publication date: 1901

Topics: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Presidents, Presidents

Publisher: Philadelphia : International Pub. Co.

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Digitizing sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

"The story of Lincoln's life told by himself in his stories, wit and humor of the war, the courts, the backwoods and the White House. Illustrated with one hundred original outline drawings by special artists of scenes and characters in Lincoln's stories, and fifty photograph portraits of the famous men of Lincoln's time and their biographies"--T.p

Prospectus for: "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories (International Pub. Co., 1901)

Includes subscription register

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Many unrelated Lincoln anecdotes and cartoons

An elaborate cloth bound and illustrated prospectus

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